WALNUT CREEK (AP)  A brown loafer
shoe found alongside Interstate 680 was identified Saturday by
police laboratory technicians as belonging to a high school girl
kidnapped from her home last Monday night.
Police also said the parents and a girlfriend
of Elaine Louise Davis, 17, feel "pretty certain,"
the shoe belonged to the missing teenager.
Miss Davis apparently was abducted from
her home when left with her 3-year-old sister about 10:30 p.m.
Her parents returned to find the child asleep and Miss Davis
gone. She left behind a pair of eyeglasses and her purse, police
said.
A Danville housewife found the shoe near
her home, about five miles away.
Police said dirt and other debris on
the shoe match dirt samples consistent with soil around the missing
girl's home. Wear patterns also were the same.
"The longer she is missing, the
worse the situation looks," said a police spokesman.